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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Abandoned Victorian Homes

Considering the beauty of Victorian Era homes, it's hard to believe that anyone leaves them abandoned and abused. I see them, and I imagine pastel paint, fresh decorative gingerbread trim, and deep wraparound porches. I also imagine going inside the abandoned building and poking around in the dark eerie rooms in its once beautiful splendor now rotting and moldy, creaking and haunted feeling.

Source: Born during the Industrial Revolution,
they embraced new materials and technologies to create houses like no
one had ever seen before. Mass-production and mass-transit made
ornamental parts affordable. Victorian architects and builders applied
decoration liberally, combining features borrowed from many different
eras with flourishes from their own imaginations.

Valspar paints actually offer you paint selections for interior and exterior based on historic Victorian color palette. Soft muted pastel tones ruled the colors of Victorian era, as well as some deep dramatic colors like eggplant purple and rich red, as well as bright Easter Egg tones.

And, some Victorian homes come with ghosts. Many people around the turn of the century passed on in their homes, not hospitals. That was the common way. As well, these homes often had Civil War histories and lots of occupants over the years.

Here's some interiors -

What about the Victorian no one wants? -

This mansion (above) in Cheshire has sat empty since 2005. No one wants it. Can you believe it? Well, it has a history - Lawyer Christopher Lumsden knifed his
53-year-old wife Alison around 30 times after she announced she was
leaving him for a family friend. He slashed her face and neck so many
times that a pathologist could not count the precise number of blows. No one wants the place and so it has sat abandoned.

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